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STATEMENT* Many of our high schools are inadequate and obsolete. Their failure is the more striking when you consider that our educational system has produced high schools unexcelled anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, these are in the minority. Far too many continue to teach subjects completely unrelated to anything our youngsters. ever will need to know. *By Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C., which appeared in article, "What's the Matter With Our High Schools?" - The Saturday Evening Post, December 31, 1949